Epitaph On A Disturber Of His Times
by A. S. J. Tessimond
We expected the violin’s finger on the upturned nerve;
Its importunate cry, too laxly curved:
And you drew us an oboe-outline, clean and acute;
Unadorned statement, accurately carved.
We expected the screen, the background for reverie
Which cloudforms usefully weave:
And you built the immaculate, adamant, blue-green steel
Arch of a balanced wave.
We expected a pool with flowers to diffuse and break
The child-round face of the mirrored moon:
And you blazed a rock-path, begun near the sun, to be finished
By the trained and intrepid feet of men.
A few random poems:
- Sonnet X
- The Tent poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Ольга Берггольц – Стихи о себе
- Fanny’s Be’th-Day by William Barnes
- Songs From “Prince Lucifer” I – Grave-Digger’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – За женщиной
- The Gardener XIII: I Asked Nothing by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ольга Берггольц – Старая гвардия
- Ianthe! You are Call’d to Cross the Sea by Walter Savage Landor
- Владимир Маяковский – Чтоб голод нас не передушил к лету… (Главполитпросвет №160)
- Disillusionment Of Ten O’clock by Wallace Stevens
- Zen-moment by Sunil Sharma
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A Favourite Character:
- Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep by William Shakespeare
- Vagueness Petrified by Thonda Sri Indrani
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Poems.html 0
- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works